- Hi I'm Parris and I know I'm looking a bit scruffy
this morning I let my beard go over the weekend, I haven't
trimmed it up or shaved because I'm gonna be trying out
today the Philips OneBlade, this is an interesting
looking device that is supposed to replace your razor,
your edger, your beard trimmer, all of these devices
with this one.
It would sure make traveling a lot easier but how well
can it do the job?
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- The Philips OneBlade goes for about $35 which would
be expensive if it was just a razor or just a shaver or
just a trimmer but all three in one it's not a bad price,
however that's not the whole price, I'll tell
you about that a little bit later.
This is supposed to do everything you need to have done
on your face especially if you would like to have
a contoured, stubble-type beard this can do all
the steps involved in that without having to change
it out for any other devices.
You can also use it wet or dry and I'll have a link to it
right down below this video.
In case you thought this look was easy to come by,
oh no, daily I use a rotary shaver to get these areas here.
Then every three or four days it's the beard trimmer
with the adjustable comb to shorten up the beard.
And then few times a week you get this hair,
right in the corner of your lip and neither of these
will do the job so then you've gotta say alright,
now where's the razor and you gotta get it ready
and take the hair with this.
So I'm actually using three different devices
and so when I travel it's them plus the chargers
plus you never know when you might need another blade.
If I could replace all of this with one device,
it would be great.
It was actually an Epic Review Guys viewer that told
me about the OneBlade and suggest that I give this a try
in a video.
Now I have done some other shaver razor video reviews
before, that debuted to critical acclaim.
Very critical.
I'll put link to that playlist at the end of this video.
And it did make me a little wary about doing another
razor review.
Okay yes, it's charges, this I understand has a
nickel metal hydride battery rather than a lithium battery
so it takes eight hours to charge, but that give you
45 minutes of shaving, should last you for your
two or three times you have to go at your face a week
I would think.
Comes with three combs so there's adjustable length
for how stubbly you want to look.
And then we have the actual razor or trimmer,
I'm not quite sure what to call it.
When I first saw this I thought this is where you
put the blade.
I didn't realize, this was the blade.
Can you believe this little piece is going to do
all the work?
Its' ejectable with this button to change out,
this is supposed to last about four months, now that's
the extra expense this isn't like a beard trimmer where
you figure the blades will be sharp for the couple
of years that it lasts and then you'll just buy
a new one, this one the blade's supposed to last
about four months and that's with twice weekly
shaving and trimming, then you pop it off, you replace
the blade, blades go for about $15 each or two for $25
so you're looking at a one year cost in addition
to buying this for $35, two blades for $25,
$60 for your first year with this.
There are no fancy LEDs or other informational things here.
You got your power button.
(buzzing)
That's the sound of 200 movements a second.
That's the cutting speed of the blade.
I'm gonna charge this up completely and then I'll come back
and see what this new design in shaving can do to this face.
The OneBlade is fully charged.
(buzzing)
Time to try it out on my face.
Now the blade can cut on the top as well as the bottom,
so you can use it both directions, let's see how that works.
(buzzing)
Just a little tingly vibration, that's really all you feel.
(buzzing)
I can feel the little bumps of the hair.
Gonna try out the trim guides, popping that onto this
and seeing about trimming the beard.
Starting with five millimeter.
You can fit this on either way, I'm going to
use it this way so that I'm trimming like this but
you can put it on the other way so it'll trim pulling down.
(buzzing)
Maybe I haven't quite got the knack down,
but it's not working especially well as a trimmer.
I don't think I'm getting it clogged up, let me take a look.
(buzzing)
Maybe it's actually cut the hair down to five millimeters
in length, I'm gonna try the three millimeter one
and see if it cuts some more.
(buzzing)
Oh yeah, maybe that was it, it wasn't cutting it as
short as I was wanting it, three was better.
Still not entirely sure what I think of it.
I'm gonna have to shave the mustache off with
just the blade, see how that goes.
(buzzing)
It's not a smooth skin shave, I can still feel the hairs.
Also did not cut me or irritate my skin.
Well I'm not really sure what I think.
It doesn't get you a close shave like you're usually
looking for when you go out and buy the latest
technology razor but what it does is it gives you a
close enough shave, at least that's what I think
they're going for.
If you're going for a stubble look anyway, I suppose if
it isn't the closest shave in the areas around it,
it isn't quite that important.
I dunno it seems to do an okay job at the different
tasks that it does, but it doesn't shave as close
as a razor.
It doesn't trim, I feel it doesn't trim as evenly
or as quickly as a trimmer, because a trimmer you're
usually going to be working with a larger area.
This I felt like it took longer to use this to get
all the hair without even taking off the mustache
and just feeling how, it's pokier than I'm used to
once I've run this over it.
So I need to use this now to smooth out just a
little bit more.
(buzzing)
Oh that feels better,
I took off that extra two 100ths of a millimeter
that I needed.
And again people who have the stubble look maybe having
the five o'clock shadow area around it isn't that
big a deal but if that's not quite the look you're going for
and you actually want to have the beard and the sideburns
and the mustache here and have a close shave around it,
I don't think this is the best for that.
Now it didn't cut me, it didn't catch on anything,
it didn't leave my skin at all irritated, so those
are all nice features.
And I don't usually shave with a razor blade
for that specific reason because I will get that razor rash.
I'm willing to trade a little bit of irritation for a
closer shave, one that a rotary shaver will provide.
And in case you were getting ideas about using
the OneBlade elsewhere, there is a note here in the
instructions, do not use for shaving, styling or trimming
lower body parts.
They mean legs, right?
To be fair, it's possible I was a little trepidatious,
didn't push down quite as hard as I could have
to get a closer shave 'cause I didn't want to pinch my skin
in this I didn't know how badly it might cut me.
But I'll use it more and if I get used to it and decide
well, it actually works much better than I thought,
I'll report that back here.
Find out more about the OneBlade at the link down below
this video and you can keep checking back to see whether
I actually change my mind on this or you can click that
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me and my lower body parts will see you
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